It’s 808 day! The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is no doubt the most iconic drum machine. Since it came out in the 1980s, it inspired...

This article was inspired by one of our readers’ comments. Dee suggested I check out Charanjit Singh who used a TB-303 before acid house...

Do What Yourself? How to be successful in a music career is totally different. Parts of the old music industry have become obsolete. And...

Your creativity shouldn’t stop at sound. We started an artist residency program.For the first edition Jesse Boykins III finished his...

Giving artists the space they need to create. All artists need space to create. Ideas are simple. But without the right resources to turn...

Sometimes you play the gear. And sometimes the gear plays you. Live gear setups rule. It’s the first thing I check when I get to a show....

It’s time to stop underestimating deep learning machines. Machines that do ‘deep learning’ — like LANDR — are a form of advanced...

Piper is the animated short screening in theaters before Finding Dory—the long awaited Finding Nemo sequel. Finding Dory reached a lot of...

The only guarantee is change. Music is more contested right now than a Steph Curry layup. The same words keep coming up in...

We need to talk about sampling. Writing songs using the art of sampling is nothing new. In fact, it’s become one of the only frontiers in...

Music gets lost if you’re not careful. Just ask these huge artists that lost it all. Nothing beats the feeling of having your finished...

Top mix engineer Dave Pensado uses LANDR. And we couldn’t be happier. He’s an inspiration to everyone striving to get better at...

Experiments are the mother of invention. Nothing changes if you do something the same way over and over. Music production has come a long...

It’s time to think differently about your craft. No one wrote the book on music. It can’t be written because it would never end. But that...

It’s not hard to be original. But in a time where anything is available with the push of a button the definition of ‘original’ has...

Yonatan Ayal is a kid at heart. Which might surprise you, given his level of success. His drive has led him to success as both a solo...

Jesse Tolbert has a tattoo on his arm. Its message is simple: Made in Detroit. Born and raised in Motown, the words describe Tolbert’s...

2015 was the most important year for music in decades. What didn’t happen in music this year? It’s a tough question. The internet was...

I just got into producing. I’m new to the wonderful world of music creation. After years of absorbing, listening, hoarding and dissecting...

Dive into Blue Hawaii’s textures—head first for best results. Alex Cowan is driven. He makes up one half of Blue Hawaii—a group name that...